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They are not hiding anything anymore. Hopefully Judge Roberts reads this
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is bragging that hes handing over control of the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump to President Donald Trump.
Everything I do during this, Im coordinating with White House Counsel, the Kentucky Republican Leader told Fox News Sean Hannity Thursday night. There will be no difference between the Presidents position and our position as to how to handle this.
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more at link
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/experts-stunned-as-mitch-mcconnell-brags-hes-handing-control-of-impeachment-trial-to-trump/
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)kozar
(2,111 posts)mucifer
(23,542 posts)usaf-vet
(6,186 posts)There are suggestions that the Senate plan is for MoscowMitch to move for an acquittal... the end.
Hopefully, the Dems are thinking this through. John Dean suggests NOT moving it to the Senate. Let it fester in the House through next spring. Continue gathering more facts/proof. Bring along the public. Then move it to the Senate.
I have to admit I can see MoscowMitch pulling a stunt like that.
This could be all for naught. Those that see Trump is a threat a "clear and present danger" are not going anywhere. Those that are bots of the Trump cult are not going anywhere. It's the 20+% in the middle that need to be moved.
Let's make our next move the right long-range tactical move.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)(more) will slowly come around. Then maybe a few Republicans will see the votes they need to stay in office override their allegiance to Heir Trump.
mucifer
(23,542 posts)cowards if it stays in the house.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)campaign period, enabling his election. But they're paying a lot more attention to HIM now, though still avoiding stories on GOP-kleptocrats-Russia, and more about Trump et al's corruption will continue to come out for the court of public opinion over the coming months.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)usaf-vet
(6,186 posts)it will aggravate Trump each morning when getting up. And annoy him while going to bed.
WIN-WIN
duforsure
(11,885 posts)They're saying there is only trump rule of law, Congress has no longer equal powers , and judges no longer can have legal orders followed and instead ignored to hide their crimes for self protection, and can unleash anything against anyone who opposes them, or threatens exposing them. Democracy cannot exist under these circumstances, and the truth is under constant attack for fear of them being exposed. trump will be bragging soon he is the rule of law, and can do anything he wants. Watch how quickly he escalates his criminal activities from escaping justice from these complicit republicans enablers working for putin with trump now.
jimmil
(629 posts)You summarized exactly what they want. "Congress has no longer equal powers , and judges no longer can have legal orders followed and instead ignored to hide their crimes for self protection, and can unleash anything against anyone who opposes them, or threatens exposing them." Since Reagan politicians have hammered how Congress is a do nothing institution, the courts are ruling our land, and people that oppose their views are evil and want to completely run their lives. This is their mantra for forty years. They WANT Trump to be the only law. What you view as wrong on many levels is exactly why Trump is in office now.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)sovereign electorate or if 2012 was our last democratic presidential election.
Itm, the electorate, presumably in their wisdom, have chosen to put Republicans in charge of the senate and preside over the impeachment trial.
Hope someone told Calvin the power of his vote helps determine who gets in power whether he directs it himself or not.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)have tolerated this clown for too long. He is only for rich people, and himself. GET RID OF HIM. He has too much power, anyway. This insanity will continue until we dump the deadwood like McConnell, Graham, Goetz, Jordan and the rest of the gop fools. I am really concerned about what we do not know. These gop members are openly defending a president who breaks laws, and they don't care who knows it. What do they know, that we are unaware of so far? Every top tRump official is corrupt, and flaunt it. Barr is a tool for tRump. Pence is a whiny little shrimp, waiting to take over. Pompeo is a blustering ass. Mike Huckerbee is on Faux, saying tRump would be able to run for a third term as president!! In whose America? I am getting very nervous.
gab13by13
(21,337 posts)isn't coming from an impartial juror. Dems should be demanding Mitch recuse himself.
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,722 posts)BOOM!
ancianita
(36,055 posts)This is the hill that defines his legacy. We'll find out what he's made of.
Farmer-Rick
(10,170 posts)Not that I expect that partisan tool to do anything fairly. What with his citizen united decision. Chief Roberts is not a trustworthy representative of the US Constitution.
What more can the shorty Putin's puppets do? They will find him not guilty. They will then pretend Trumpy Dumpy is not a criminal and most of Americans will go along.....And Shorty the mobster Putin will win in the Senate again.
And Dumpy Trumpy's reign of terror will continue.
spanone
(135,831 posts)Tanuki
(14,918 posts)"How a McConnell-backed effort to lift Russian sanctions boosted a Kentucky project
In January, as the Senate debated whether to permit the Trump administration to lift sanctions on Russias largest aluminum producer, two men with millions of dollars riding on the outcome met for dinner at a restaurant in Zurich.
On one side of the table sat the head of sales for Rusal, the Russian aluminum producer that would benefit most immediately from a favorable Senate vote. The U.S. government had imposed sanctions on Rusal as part of a campaign to punish Russia for malign activity around the globe, including attempts to sway the 2016 presidential election.
On the other side sat Craig Bouchard, an American entrepreneur who had gained favor with officials in Kentucky, the home state of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Bouchard was trying to build the first new aluminum-rolling mill in the United States in nearly four decades, in a corner of northeastern Kentucky ravaged by job losses and the opioid epidemic a project that stood to benefit enormously if Rusal were able to get involved.
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Within weeks, the U.S. government had formally lifted sanctions on Rusal, citing a deal with the company that reduced the ownership interest of its Kremlin-linked founder, Oleg Deripaska. And three months later, Rusal announced plans for an extraordinary partnership with Bouchards company, providing $200 million in capital to buy a 40 percent stake in the new aluminum plant in Ashland, Ky. a project Gov. Matt Bevin (R) boasted was as significant as any economic deal ever made in the history of Kentucky........(more at link)
ecstatic
(32,703 posts)he hated in KY?
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)the defense of Bill Clinton was run by Clinton's attorneys and NOT Senate Democrats.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,412 posts)if this is a bad thing or a good thing for us. I doubt that it is procedural or what he should be doing but, I mean, it's not like Trump's legal team is "gangbusters" either.